New global benchmark set: Vice President on ‘Op Sindoor’

New Delhi, May 17: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday drew similarities between Operation Sindoor and the killing of Osama bin Laden by US forces in Pakistan.

Describing the attacks on nine terror sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) as the "deepest-ever cross-border strike" by India, the vice-president recalled the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States.

Without naming bin Laden, he said that on May 2, 2011, a global terrorist who planned, supervised, and executed the September 11 attacks inside the US was "dealt with" by the US forces "similarly".

ìBharat has done it. And done it to the knowledge of the world," Dhankhar said while addressing an event of Jaipuria institutions here. Stating that a new "global benchmark" has been set, Dhankhar said the objective has been to strike at terrorism while maintaining the spirit of peace.

For the first time, precise strikes were carried out deep across the International Border on the strongholds of Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba. The strikes were so precise that only terrorists were harmed, Dhankhar said.

After the Pahalgam terror attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given a message to the global community from Bihar, he said.

"Those were not empty words. The world has now realised," Dhankhar said.

He also said that the Pahalgam terror strike, which left 26 people dead, was the deadliest attack on civilians since the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008.

ìIt was a remarkable retaliation, befitting our ethos of peace and tranquillity, to the barbarity that happened on April 22 in Pahalgam, the deadliest attack on our civilians since the 2008 Mumbai attacks," Dhankhar said.